Motivational Quotes

Death

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

- Milton, John

Best Quotes about Death

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

11.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

12.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

13.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

14.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

15.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

16.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

17.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

18.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

19.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

20.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

21.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

22.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

23.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

24.

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

25.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

27.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

28.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

29.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

30.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

31.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

32.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

33.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

34.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

35.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

36.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

37.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

38.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

39.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

40.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

43.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

44.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

45.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

46.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

47.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

48.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

49.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

50.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider